Equality Issues Queen of the North: Long May She Reign! ***Spoilers for Canada’s Drag Race below*** Move over Sansa Stark, there’s a new Queen of the North in the house. (Does anybody make Game of Thrones references anymore?) Hopefully you’re caught up on Canada’s Drag Race. It’s now been almost a week since Brooke Lynn By Prem • Sep 10, 2020 02:33 pm
Business of Hollywood The Oscars institute inclusion rules for Best Picture After years of #OscarsSoWhite trending basically every year during Oscar season since 2015, the Academy finally got sick of eating sh-t for the studios and have instituted a set of diversity rules for future Best Picture nominees. The rules will go into effect in 2024, for the 96th Academy Awards, By Sarah • Sep 09, 2020 09:51 am
Style Cate and Tilda: Actors on the Red Carpet As I mentioned on Tuesday when I posted photos of Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton arriving at the Venice Film Festival, it felt like reactivating a dormant muscle. After six months of no red carpets and arrival coverage, there’s some stiffness and pain, even disbelief, and also some cautious By Lainey • Sep 03, 2020 02:03 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Boys in the Band trailer Ryan Murphy is one of the most prolific producers in Hollywood. This year alone he has three films—assuming The Prom makes its December release date—and five television shows coming out. He has directed one of the movies, The Prom, and episodes for two of the television shows, Hollywood By Sarah • Sep 03, 2020 12:20 pm
Top Reads John Boyega GQ John Boyega covers the October issue of British GQ this month, talking about his impassioned speech at a London Black Lives Matter rally earlier this summer and his experience with Star Wars, now that he’s free and clear of the franchise and has had some time to reflect. Of By Sarah • Sep 02, 2020 01:37 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Donta Storey and queer Black filmmaking In a sea full of lemons, be the lime is the message behind Donta Storey’s directorial debut, simply titled LiME. The short film follows a young Black teen who struggles to find their voice amidst oppressive surroundings — borrowing from Donta’s own origin story. I had a wildly different By Cody • Sep 01, 2020 02:43 pm
Relationship Assumption Trevor and Minka: A Serious Couple PEOPLE broke the news yesterday– and not because of paparazzi photos but through sourcing: Trevor Noah and Minka Kelly are dating. And, according to PEOPLE’s source, “it’s a very serious relationship”. Other entertainment outlets soon followed with Us Weekly noting that the two follow each other on Instagram By Lainey • Sep 01, 2020 12:54 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Kelly Marie Tran: Historic Princess Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon is due for release on March 12, 2021. It has already made history – because Kelly Marie Tran is now the “first actress of Southeast Asian descent to lead a Disney animated movie” and the movie is also the first Disney film to be By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 03:12 pm
Top Reads Gabrielle, Uzo, Keke, and Marsai: Their Hair Story It’s no surprise that Gabrielle Union has voiced her support of the NBA players and other athletes’ striking – she’s never not used her voice, even when it’s been a risk, especially when it’s been a risk. Black women are almost always the ones taking on the By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 10:36 am
Sports Intro for August 27, 2020 Dear Gossips, It was an “unprecedented day in sports history”. The Milwaukee Bucks stayed in the dressing room last night, ultimately deciding to not play in last night’s NBA playoff game against Orlando to protest police officer Rusten Sheskey shooting and subsequently paralysing Jacob Blake. They were supported by By Lainey • Aug 27, 2020 08:52 am
Top Reads Beyoncé: A New Fall Drop? Beyoncé and Jay-Z have been in the Hamptons the last little while. They were photographed with all three kids on a boat with Twitter’s Jack Dorsey the other day – Page Six has the exclusive photos. Sir and Rumi are three years old now. And Blue who is eight years By Lainey • Aug 26, 2020 12:06 pm
Music BTS’s subversive “Dynamite” BTS’s new English song, “Dynamite”, broke all kinds of records this weekend. It’s the biggest music video premiere in YouTube history. And it now holds the YouTube record for most views in 24 hours – 101 MILLION. Not surprisingly, “Dynamite” received the most first day western radio plays of By Lainey • Aug 24, 2020 12:37 pm
TV Updates ‘Writer’s Mutiny’ but CBS Showrunner Still Has A Job Another week, another headline – but this time, something’s missing. Spot the differences: In June, I wrote this piece about writer Craig Gore, who had been a writer on S.W.A.T and Chicago P.D. and was fired (and dropped from his agency) from an upcoming Law & By Duana • Aug 21, 2020 04:12 pm
Award Season Campaigning Issa Rae, Emmys, and Hollywood Domination Issa Rae may be the busiest woman in Hollywood, but she continues to take on projects that will open the doors for others. Her latest (gorgeous) magazine cover story has The Hollywood Reporter proclaiming she’s embracing her role as a trailblazer but Insecure, which she created and in which By Cody • Aug 20, 2020 01:09 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that Daniel Dae-Kim and Randall Park will co-star and co-produce a heist film featuring an Asian-American cast and that the project has been acquired by Amazon after a bidding war. Obviously I love everything about this, including how Young Il Kim, who wrote the screenplay, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 09:44 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for August 19, 2020 Dear Gossips, Deadline reported yesterday that Daniel Dae-Kim and Randall Park will co-star and co-produce a heist film featuring an Asian-American cast and that the project has been acquired by Amazon after a bidding war. Obviously I love everything about this, including how Young Il Kim, who wrote the screenplay, By Lainey • Aug 19, 2020 09:44 am
